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Great. Just great.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 76 points 1 week ago (3 children)

as if forcing everyones retirement into the practically unregulated stock market wasnt already the worst gamble in american history... lets make our reserve even less stable.

awesome. super genius moves here. congress isnt asleep at the wheel, theyre comatose. they might as well not exist.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Congress has made it explicitly clear that they serve to rubber stamp anything and everything Trump signs as an EO. They work for and serve the executive office only

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

who needs checks and balances when you support a dictator? the constitution is toilet paper to these people.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

You need checks to send money from the government to the oligarchs, and balances to know how much money they earned. So yes, checks and balances are fundamental and necessary.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • The temporarily slim majority in congress has...

Ftfy? I hope?!? Please tell me this isn't forever.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

This wishful thinking Americans have that some magical saviour of democracy is going to appear to save them is ridiculous and sad for the rest of the world looking at this forest fire.

If you’re an American, go fix your fucking country. You have constitutional amendments for this exact scenario.

Edit: My comments iterating which specific amendments I’m referring to have all been removed. Your constitution is more controversial n mysterious than I thought. Im sorry for sharing its secrets. I learn new things everyday!

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have constitutional amendments for this exact scenario.

WTF does this actually mean? You do realize that constitutional amendments require a 2/3rds majority, right?

And what the hell amendment are you suggesting?

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We do, but we don't have two-thirds of both houses of Congress ready to fix this mess, let alone 38 statehouses to ratify. The clusterfuck will continue apace.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is wild. I’m referring to the amendments in your constitution in the event of tyranny. Even here in your comment and the other’s, you’re waiting for congress or your senate or whatever part of your government to save you.

No one is coming to save you. Save yourselves. You have a constitutional amendment for this exact moment in time.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I get that you don't live here, but there's nothing like a national initiative process for amendments. That you would like there to be reflects a likely majority view of the voter base, but this does not make it so.

If you're referring to the 14th, that was shredded already. The Constitution is irrelevant to the junta, as juntas are wont to do. Voting harder in a mythical election that can't happen is simply not an option.

I would encourage you to know about the U.S. Constitution before spouting off about it. I don't wander into Canadian politics because I don't know how it works and can admit that.

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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If it's any comfort, he's merely planning to take all of the crypto the government has confiscated and merely put it all into one account and do nothing with it.

It's like taking all the small change from the various couches of your house and putting it all into one water jug and forgetting that it's in the corner.

So basically useless, like the half (that isn't destructive) of stuff he does.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the piece that makes me nervous is the selling off of government owned properties. its one of the most valuable and stable assets the government owns and hes attempting to sell it off.. some of it we would then have to lease from private owners.

[–] hazelnoot@beehaw.org 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't that a classic corporate raid technique? Sell the company's assets to you or an organization you control, then lease them back to the original owners.

[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

didn't that crush red lobster recently?

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 9 points 1 week ago

Yea turns out the new property management company has its own profit driven motives, and will only push leases higher and higher...

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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, that's the other half - destroy democracy and liquidate its assets like a failed casino.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't it be nice if that sarcasm didn't reflect reality?

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 12 points 1 week ago

I mean, have you seen how old most of them are?

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 28 points 1 week ago

The government as bagholder of last resort

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gonna be the most epic rugpull of all time.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

In 3... 2...1...

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So what's this mean?

He'll take US Tax Dollars and put them in Crypto?

Sounds like a great way to bankrupt your entire country back into the stone age.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No. In fact it explicitly doesn’t allow that.

[–] TanyaJLaird@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago

They're using a bullshit slight-of-hand to claim they're not spending government money on it.

They're planning on using coins seized from criminals. But normally those coins would be sold, and the proceeds from that sale would go to the US Treasury. Instead, they're going to seize them and just hold onto them.

It's the same thing. Whether you spend government money to purchase coins and hold them, or you simply hold seize coins, both of these options result in the same increase in the US national debt.

And ultimately it is simply a method of propping up the crypto bubble. They want the US government to be the ultimate "diamond hands" hoarder of crypto. Every time some dark web drug site gets shut down, any coins they hold will be thrown into a government vault, never to be seen again. This effectively removes them from circulation, decreasing the supply, and forcing crypto prices higher. This is taking billions from the Treasury to prop up the crypto market.

[–] millie@beehaw.org 16 points 1 week ago

So he's going to do the same thing he did to his fanboys to the government? Oh good. Can we impeach this guy yet?

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yay, fucking looser spending tax payer money on another of his looser scams

[–] ngdev@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] wedge@lemmy.one 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He's looser from all of the anal he's taking from Musk and Putin.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago

You win the internet today.

[–] ngdev@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Same misunderstandings as usual:

crypto transactions can be done anonymously

Except for a couple "anonymous coins", no they can't.
KYC+Blockchain = full traceability.

asset with little proven real-world application that regular old U.S. dollars can’t already account for

Close. Consider the following scenario:

  1. USD is a US government IOU, same as every other fiat currency.
  2. Fiat money's value depends on the trust in the credit it represents.
  3. Trump&co are destroying USA's trust worldwide.
  4. External countries like China, have huge amounts of US credit... have given a lot to the US in exchange for a pinky swear.
  5. The US keeps emitting USD credit by manipulating interest rates, hoping to attract investors and greed/trust.

But what if the US were to default on its obligations instead, break trade agreements, break defense agreements... what would be a safe store of value then?

  • Gold, will say some... but there is not enough gold to go around to represent all the credit currently tied in money, that was the reason to abandon the gold standard in the first place.
  • Others will pick the Yuan, after all it's the second largest economy GDP PPP... but really? Does anyone trust China? I doubt so.
  • Euro seems much more trustworthy, but it will take long after Trump has utterly trashed the US economy, for the US to recognize defeat.

That leaves little more than fantasy money, with the stablest of them being: Bitcoin.

[–] LukeZaz@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I don't think Bitcoin qualifies as a "safe store of value" when it fluctuates like hell on a day-to-day basis and transferring it anywhere for any reason costs exorbitant amounts of money. Much as you or I don't trust China, I think the powerhouse of an economy that it has will make it awfully enticing for investment orgs, and I don't think the U.S. will have to "recognize defeat" for the Euro to replace the dollar, either. If the dollar tanks, it tanks.

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

He is going to kill the USD, just wait and see.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 10 points 1 week ago

That crypto reserve is a load of old cobblers if I ever saw one. The government is not buying or planning or whatever… they just don’t do anything with the stack they already have, thanks to Biden I guess? And I guess they won’t be chasing many new frauds and rug pullers anymore, with all the crypto broligarch shit they are pulling.

can't wait until north korea hacks into it and steals everything.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

"Really happening" means less when it's only his zombies and Russians that would ever use such a thing.

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